Possible

Postal Site

Is Chosen

West Boynton Station

Should Ease Crowding

The U.S. Postal Service has selected a site at Boynton Beach Boulevard and Jog Road as its first choice for a new west Boynton Beach post office.

Postal officials in Atlanta listed the Jog/Boynton Beach site as their top choice in a letter last week to county zoning officials.

The L-shaped site is at the southeast corner, near a Publix shopping center under construction and a medical office building that is planned.

The new 27,000-square-foot post office is expected to relieve crowding at the main Boynton Beach post office, on Boynton Beach Boulevard west of Congress Avenue.

"We will more than double the existing space, and we will finally be able to make this facility customer-friendly, which I don't think it is now," said Boynton Beach Postmaster Richard May.

The news is wonderful for residents of the area west of Boynton Beach, who lobbied for years for convenience in their fast-growing community and are finally seeing results.

"It's definitely needed," said Bob Becker, vice president of the Coalition of Boynton West Residential Associations. "This place they have now is so terribly undersized. The traffic problem there is horrendous."

The existing station at 1530 W. Boynton Beach Blvd. serves 65,000 customers. The additional site would assume part of the workload, allowing May to clear space for more customer windows at the main office.

Customers often risk being towed by parking in the Publix lot next door, where spaces are plentiful and access is easy.

The postal service has approved money to buy between 6.5 and 7.5 acres of land. The new site would cost about $5 million and should open by Christmas 1995, May said.